> Looking for one single thing that does everything DG or e2guardian do, > or wraps them completely is the wrong approach. They are almost > full-blown proxies like Squid. > > The *CAP design is to leave all the transfer proxying and caching duties > to software like Squid and only perform the actual content adaptation > policies in the service/module. > > You need to look at what DG is doing for you now and how much of that is > available from squid.conf capabilities. Most of it usually is. Only the > remaining "fiddling with payloads" bit actually needs a third-party service. > > Yes I know that Squid is very powerful, but (DG or E2) seems - to me - more easier with complex rules I'm working with multi users groups, regex in HTML, rules with exceptions (site allowed if some conditions), etc I guess if I reproduce my configuration in squid.conf it will be more hard to maintain after .. Also these soft are massively multi-threaded, in my usage squid + dg use less CPU than Squid alone I mean the load is shared by the cores. I also tried squid with SMP but there are some restrictions (delay pool, identification - if I remember right -) > GreasySpoon or qlproxy seems to be the high profile ones. c-icap and > Traffic Spicer seem to offer frameworks rather than pre-made filters > <http://www.squid-cache.org/Misc/icap.html> > > The interfaces GreasySpoon or qlproxy describe say easily scriptable to > do filtering. Though filtering is a huge topic, so "easily" is up for > interpretation. Thanks, I will take a look > > And fiddling around with your customers content is very site-specific > about what can or can't be done. Thus the frameworks and script engines > being most high profile. > Yes you are right, I wish that there is a change in E2, for me the ideal situation is SQUID (cache and identification) and a pool of E2 with ICAP I guess that there is no hope for SquidGuard because it's very different, a redirector related with Squid _______________________________________________ squid-users mailing list squid-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.squid-cache.org/listinfo/squid-users
